This account is pending registration confirmation. Please click on the link within the confirmation email previously sent you to complete registration.Need a new registration confirmation email? Click here

IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI): Internet's Featured Daily Laggard

Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our model.

IAC/InterActiveCorp (
IACI) pushed the Internet industry lower today making it today's featured Internet laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.5%. By the end of trading, IAC/InterActiveCorp fell $1.53 (-3.3%) to $44.35 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 2.6 million shares of IAC/InterActiveCorp exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.5 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $44.31-$45.85 after having opened the day at $45.74 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $45.88. Other companies within the Internet industry that declined today were:
SouFun Holdings (
SFUN), down 5.4%,
Internet Initiative Japan (
IIJI), down 4.7%,
Net Element International (
NETE), down 4.7%, and
VirnetX (
VHC), down 4.2%.

EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Jim Cramer's Protégé, Dave Peltier, only buys Stocks Under $10 that he thinks could potentially double. See what he's trading today with a 14-day FREE pass.

IAC/InterActiveCorp operates as a media and Internet company in the United States and internationally. IAC/InterActiveCorp has a market cap of $3.49 billion and is part of the technology sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 24.6, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 5.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are eight analysts that rate IAC/InterActiveCorp a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and two rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates IAC/InterActiveCorp as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels, expanding profit margins, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.